Academics' Statement of Protest Regarding Faculty Firings at Mount St. Mary's University

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2	To sign this statement, please visit http://tinyurl.com/msmprotestform
3	For questions, etc. about it you may contact John Schwenkler (jlschwenkler@gmail.com)
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5	Academics' Statement of Protest Regarding Faculty Firings at Mount St. Mary's University
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7	We the undersigned, as members of the community of scholars, protest the firings of Edward Egan and Thane Naberhaus from their
8	faculty positions at Mount St. Mary's University.
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10	The manner and circumstance of their dismissal raise serious questions about the respect given to moral conscience and intellectual
11	freedom at Mount St. Mary's. Of particular concern is that Prof. Egan was fired partly for actions taken in his role as faculty advisor to
12	the university's student newspaper, which first broke the stories leading to the present controversy. It is also alarming that these faculty
13	were fired without any academic due process as required under AAUP guidelines and the customary standards of tenure.
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15	As a Catholic institution, Mount St. Mary's is bound by the teachings that "charity always proceeds by way of respect for one’s neighbor
16	and his conscience" (Catechism of the Catholic Church, par. 1789), and that in the context of the Catholic university "the freedom of
17	conscience of each person is to be fully respected" (Ex Corde Ecclesiae, II.2.iv). As a university, it is bound by the standards that
18	govern any university in respect of its faculty.
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20	We call for these faculty to be reinstated immediately, and the administration held accountable for this violation of their rights.
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22	Signed,

28	John Schwenkler	Assistant Professor, Philosophy, Florida State University
29	Angela Schwenkler	John Paul II Catholic High School, Tallahassee, FL (Former faculty at Mount St. Mary's)
30	Ram Neta	Professor of Philosophy, University of North Carolina
31	Tyler Curtain	Associate Professor, Department of English and Comparative Literature, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
32	Susanna Siegel	Edgar Pierce Professor of Philosophy, Dept of Philosophy, Harvard University
33	Jason Stanley	Jacob Urowsky Professor of Philosophy, Yale University
34	Michael Kremer	Mary R Morton Professor of Philosophy, University of Chicago
35	Mark Lance	Professor, Philosophy, Georgetown University
36	Neil Levy	Professor of Philosophy, Macquarie University and University of Oxford
37	Michael Thompson	Professor of Philosophy, University of Pittsburgh
38	Geoff Pynn	Associate Professor, Philosophy, Northern Illinois University
39	Claire Katz	Professor, Philosophy, Texas A&M University (and member of the AAUP)
40	William Blattner	Professor and Chair, Dept. of Philosophy, Georgetown University
41	Mark C Murphy	McDevitt Professor of Religious Philosophy, Georgetown University
42	Patrick Hayes, Ph.D.	Archivist/Independent Scholar
43	Kristin Primus	Assistant Professor, Philosophy, Georgetown
44	William S. Lewis	Professor and Chair of Philosophy Program, Skidmore College
45	Enzo Rossi	Assistant Professor, Political Science, University of Amsterdam
46	Lisa Shapiro	Professor, Philosophy, Simon Fraser University
47	Tom Mulherin	Adjunct Lecturer, Philosophy, Georgetown University
48	Stephen Puryear	Assistant Professor of Philosophy, NC State University
49	Josh Shepperd	Assistant Professor, Catholic University of America
50	Paul Franks	Professor, Department of Philosophy, Yale University
51	Jennifer A. Frey	Assistant Professor of Philosophy, University of South Carolina
52	Mark Alfano	Associate Professor of Philosophy, Delft University of Technology
53	Martin Shuster	Chair, Department of Religious Studies & Philosophy, Avila University
54	Jake Earl	Doctoral Candidate, Philosophy Department, Georgetown University
55	Alicia Finch	Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, Northern Illinois University
56	Marshall Thompson	Graduate Student, Philosophy, Florida State University
57	David Reese	PhD Student, Philosophy, Georgetown University
58	Judith Lichtenberg	Professor, Department of Philosophy, Georgetown University
59	Eric Brown	Association Professor of Philosophy, Washington University in St. Louis
60	Patrick J. Deneen	David A. Potenziani Memorial Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Notre Dame
61	Ben Bradley	Chair, Philosophy Department, Syracuse University
62	Wayne C. Myrvold	Professor, Department of Philosophy, The Univerity of Western Ontario
63	Karen Stohr, Ph.D.	Associate Professor of Philosophy, Georgetown University
64	Christopher Fox	Associate Professor, Philosophy, Newman University
65	Kate Withy	Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, Georgetown University
66	Jason Burke Murphy	Assistant Professor, Philosophy, Elms College
67	Bryce Huebner	Associate Professor, Georgetown University
68	John Protevi	Professor of French Studies and of Philosophy, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge LA, USA
69	Jeffrey Bernstein	Associate Professor of Philosophy College of the Holy Cross
70	Hilary Kornblith	Professor of Philosophy, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
71	Elizabeth Markovits	Associate Professor, Politics, Mount Holyoke College
72	James Mattingly	Associate Professor, Philosophy, Georgetown University
73	Josh Armstrong	Assistant Professor of Philosophy, UCLA
74	Patrick A. O'Donnell	PhD Candidate, Philosophy, Johns Hopkins University
75	Corey McCall	Associate Professor of Philosophy, Elmira College
76	Stewart Shapiro	Ohio State University
77	Ian Blaustein	Affiliated Faculty, Institute for Liberal Arts & Interdisciplinary Studies, Emerson College
78	Richard Fry	Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
79	Jonathan Kramnick	Maynard Mack Professor of English, Yale University
80	Charles C. Camosy	Associate Prof. of Theology, Fordham University
81	G. Anthony Bruno	Faculty Lecturer, Department of Philosophy, University of Toronto Scarborough
82	Errol Lord	Assistant Professor of Philosophy, University of Pennsylvania
83	Kristen Irwin	Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Loyola University Chicago
84	John Rosenbaum	Graduate Student, Philosophy, Baylor University
85	Joshua Alexander	Associate Professor and Chair, Philosophy Department, Siena College
86	Ted Stolze	Associate Professor of Philosophy , Cerritos College
87	Jack Woods	Assistant Professor, Philosophy, Bilkent University
88	Blake Hereth	Graduate Student, Department of Philosophy, University of Washington-Seattle
89	Devoney Looser	Professor, English, Arizona State University
90	Aaron Kashtan	Visiting Assistant Professor, English, Miami University (OH)
91	Francesca di Poppa	Associate Professor, Philosophy Department, Texas Tech University
92	Francis J Ambrosio PhD	Director, Doctor of Liberal Studies Program Georgetown University
93	Kevin Timpe	Professor of Philosophy, Northwest Nazarene University
94	Jay Odenbaugh	Associate Professor, Philosophy, Lewis & Clark College
95	Benjamin H. Johnson	Assistant Professor, History, Loyola University Chicago
96	Irene McMullin	Associate Professor, Philosophy, University of Essex
97	Brian Leiter	Karl N. Llewellyn Professor of Jurisprudence, University of Chicago Law School
98	Ann Hetzel Gunkel	Associate professor of Cultural Studies & Humanities, Humanities Coordinator, Columbia college Chicago
99	Thomas Brommage	Lecturer, Philosophy, Sam Houston State University
100	Eric Hagedorn	Assistant Professor of Philosophy, St. Norbert College
101	Jason Read	Chair Department of Philosophy and Liberal Studies in Humanities, University of Southern Maine
102	Laura Jones	Lecturer of English, The Pennsylvania State University
103	Tucker McKinney	Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy, The College of William & Mary
104	Peter Bradley	Director, Honors Program, Ferris State University
105	Liam Kofi Bright	PhD Student, Philosophy, Carnegie Mellon